Example sentences of "[adv] to use a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly within universities the more senior the the member of staff the more likely they are apparently to use a desk as a barrier erm so that they sort of er y'know you see them from behind a desk , when you 're at the front of the desk and they 're behind the desk . |
| 2 | Good gracious , ’ she breathed , ‘ if you really do believe that Rob and I are conducting some sultry little affair , do you think that either of us would be fool enough to use an office which adjoins yours ? ’ |
| 3 | Is it not better to use a product with a slightly less than exquisite perfume for the sake of the planet as well as our health ? |
| 4 | They certainly use MSL for some appointments but , as is well known , they have gone outside to use a number of the major search firms for many of their senior appointments . |
| 5 | ‘ But that is a quite separate issue from the Alternative Services book which is an alternative way of enabling congregations who have not been well versed in Cranmerian language nevertheless to use a language which does reflect their longings and their prayers and can speak to them of God . ’ |
| 6 | It may be appropriate sometimes to use a material which does not confirm to a given-set of standards ; equally some artists need their materials to be consistent . |
| 7 | The ethnographer 's conventional notepad can be obtrusive , yet when time in the field extends to a full eight-hour shift , it is impossible to dispense with it , for without notes one is left only with general impressions recorded at the end of the day or fragmentary notes recorded surreptitiously ; yet to use a tape-recorder would have been more obtrusive . |
| 8 | The beggars held out old caps , which made Tom resolve never to use a cap . |
| 9 | He shrewdly observed that the most important thing for a teacher was never to use a book that failed . |